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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2022-41767

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki through 1.35.7, 1.36.0-rc.0 through 1.37.4, 1.38.0-rc.0 through 1.38.2, and 1.39.0-rc.0. When changes made by an IP address are reassigned to a user (using 'reassignEdits.php'), the changes will still be attributed to the IP address on Special:Contributions when doing a range lookup.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published